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As many people know, I am a big believer in a multi-pronged approach to backing up your data. Yes I am a fan of online backup, but it is good to have your backup local as well. You can never have your important data in too many locations. Most people, myself included, start out with [...]

Many people know that Dropbox is great for syncing up your files between different computers. The other day I was thinking about how in the pre-Hootsuite days I used Dropbox to sync my TweetDeck groups between machines, and I thought I’d look into some other creative uses that people have come up with. Here are [...]

A while ago, a reader (Boba Fett to be exact – I guess intergalactic bounty hunters need to back their stuff up too) suggested that amongst the other backup providers that I mention, I should talk about CrashPlan. Since I know better than to cross the Fett (look what happened to Han), that’s exactly what [...]

If you’re a Carbonite online backup customer, they’ve released yet another way to get at your files when away from your computer.  The company has released a Carbonite iPhone App (it works on iPod Touches as well). From the CEO of Carbonite: The Carbonite app gives me access to the backed up files from each [...]

Being on the geekier side of the spectrum (as my wife is happy to remind me as I am hooking a Mac Mini up to our TV), I really like hearing about the inner workings of the software that we use. Too often things are dumbed down so much that they aren’t actually saying anything. [...]

OK, this has been out for quite a while. I realize that. However, I just had laser eye surgery and have been down for the count for a little while so you’ll have to cut me some slack here. I still want to mention this because Dropbox is one of my favorite services, and their [...]

If you are a user of Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage service, you have probably come across CloudBerry Explorer, which is a tool for managing your S3 data. Well, now the team from that product have taken the next step and have a new product in Beta called CloudBerry Online Backup which, not surprisingly, acts [...]

Most people know that Carbonite is a good solution for backing up your PC or Mac. However, what a lot of people don’t know is that you can also access your backed-up files on the go. A while ago, Carbonite rolled out their new Remote File Access feature. To access it, go the Carbonite homepage. [...]

As we all know, one issue with doing online backup is if you have a huge amount of data to upload or download, it can take a lonnnnnnnnng time to upload or download. Amazon has a clever solution to take care of this problem for you. You can ship them a hard drive and have [...]

One company that I have been meaning to write about for quite some time is SpiderOak, which is an online backup and sync provider I have been hearing a lot of good things about. Cross Platform While other online backup providers have been Windows-only until just recently, SpiderOak has been cross platform right from the [...]